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"And as you smile your apple-chomping teeth same as you did the morning after like it’s me that’s done something weird" Huge congratulations to Sumitra Singam (she/her/Baginda) for winning the Gooseberry Pie Lit **OpenForSubmissions** competition judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulating…

Read my sorry-not-sorry rant at The Pride Roars

Check out the Q&A up at TrashCatLit **SPECIAL SUB CALL IN AUGUST** from our very own Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos!

"Sounds are not always my friend; I find myself prone to my brain hooking onto repetitive irritant noises." Read 'How do you like your Muzak?' by Joyce Bingham @JoyceJoyceBingham10 up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-do…

Vote for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 People’s Choice Award nation.cymru/culture/vote-f…

Hey writers!! I’m giving a workshop with Audrey Niven this year FlashFictionFestival !! Come along and up your feedback game with us!!

Spending time updating my site today reminded me of Fiona McKay 📚NEW BOOK PRE-ORDER📚🏳️‍⚧️ally🏳️‍🌈 's essays on The Pride Roars Web site design & update also counts as writing🙂 Read her essays here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/also-c… theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/also-c… theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/04/also-c…

"I met my father for the first time when I was fifty-seven and he, forty-one" Read "How I Met My Father" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in The Hooghly Review thehooghlyreview.com/how-i-met-my-f…

“We want Lennon here, but—” The words safe spaces and inclusivity buzz like bees into ear wax" Read 3 micros by T.L. Tomljanovic in The Woolf thewoolfx.com/other-moms-by-…

"The chances are high that, unless you have it, you've probably never heard of aphantasia." Read 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind' by hilary55 up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/out-of…

I still can't believe this! …

"She would never get frightened by the storm, an earthquake, or the dog’s bark, would never enjoy the birds’ song as they welcomed dawn, or fall asleep to a lullaby" Read "Still Life Pain-ting" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/june-202…

"It places its limbs upon my bough and lays across my bark. Lies, always lies, wielding machines to cut us down" Read "Hunger Three Ways" by Joyce Bingham in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/june-202…

"Contains: hydrogenated and/or liquid canola oil farmed for generations in Saskatchewan, may contain palm oil not the black gold that built skyscrapers in Alberta" Read "The Family Margarine Tub" by T.L. Tomljanovic in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-fa…

Call to artists - submission call closing on the 15th of June

Get reading! You know it's beautiful 🤩😍

Pre-Order Alert!! OMG 🤩 Here it is!! The cover of my new NiF, The Lives of the Dead 😍 Thanks to Jane for the cover art! And thanks to Jude Higgins and all at Ad Hoc Fiction (Coming to Amazon soon for those outside UK)

My very first collection of short stories is up! In Body Parts Picnic, you'll find self-deprecating comedy, horror, and oh-so-serious literary micros. 25K thank you's to Mark for creating space for bodies of work (see what I did there? Jokes are funnier when you explain them)

Still not writing, and definitely not editing my novel, but I'm tidying up some pieces and subbing, and that, my friends, also counts as writing. Don't take my word for it, read Fiona McKay 📚NEW BOOK PRE-ORDER📚🏳️‍⚧️ally🏳️‍🌈's series on the subject The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/also-c…